New York Domestic Workers Fight to Pass Bill of Rights
Via Equal Writes, the BBC has recently reported on the struggle of domestic workers in New York state to pass a bill of rights for those in their line of work. In this context, the term domestic workers refers to nannies, housekeepers, and caregivers, of which there are over 200,000 in NY alone. Domestic workers [...]
...read morePreach it, Judith Warner
It’s about time someone wrote this: Now, I’m just as jealous of the yoga-pants-at-9-a.m.-on-Monday-morning crowd as the next frazzled working mom. But, I’m sorry to say, however delicious charting the downfall of the wealthy at-home mom may be, we do have to stop for a little reality check. While the rich, bathed in our attention, [...]
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“Bridezilla”? Really?
The right-wing obsession with trashing women never ceases to amaze me. Kathryn Jean Lopez’s write-up of Feministing blogger Jessica Valenti’s wedding is no exception (and of course, Ace of Spades follows up). Lopez titles the piece “You’ve Never Met a Bridezilla Like a Feminist Bridezilla” — the implication being that Jessica is acting like a [...]
...read moreThe washing machine liberated women
So says the Catholic Church. (And what the heck is going on this week with the Church being publicly ridiculous in full force?). The article was printed at the weekend in l’Osservatore Romano, the semi-official Vatican newspaper, to mark international Women’s Day on Sunday. “What in the 20th century did more to liberate Western women?,” [...]
...read moreReconsidering the Black Single Mother Argument
A great essay on what is really at the center of hatred directed toward black single mothers, single mothers in general, and other non-nuclear families, by BlackScientist, especially with arguments like this one threatening to break into the media narrative again: I want to point out that nuclear black families do exist, and have in [...]
...read moreJustifying the world… with science!
Dear Readers: are you interested in joining the ongoing fight against Bad Science? If you are, then like me you’ll be grateful that Amanda has pointed out Scientific American’s takedown of “pop” evolutionary psychology, which is very instructive in how to take apart suspicious-smelling scientific findings.
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A flaming barrel of video game stereotypes, part I
Let’s see what the flaming barrel of stereotypes has for us to day, shall we kids? 1. Video games can ruin your relationship! Ah, such a classic and volatile subject. Gal feels like she and her guy aren’t spending enough time together; obvious culprit is guy’s “males only” hobby that he spends a lot of [...]
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OOOOoooooOOOOoooOOOooo!
I spent a good part of today refinishing my sad, sad bathtub. Whee! Paint fumes! It looks *fabulous* now, though. Even though I’m still lightheaded from the vapors.
...read moreSex shouldn’t matter in politics. Let’s all be gender-blind!
Here’s what happens when USA Today tries to write from a feminist point of view: you end up with a headache. Women are more kind and nurturing than men. They are natural altruists, placing the common good — including education, health and the environment — ahead of their narrow personal interests. And that’s why we [...]
...read moreShorter Rena Corey: Back to the kitchen, ladies! Our liberation was in the mop bucket all along!
No, seriously. And it’s just too haaaard to try to get men to pick up the slack, so those 70s feminists must have been wrong about the drudgery! And Rena’s just the kind of contrarian rebel who’s gonna get in the face of a dead woman and tell her what for! The problem with our [...]
...read moresay grace
Let’s take a break for a second. No better place than the kitchen table, right? Take a break from the mess and exhaustion and day-to-day, and where do a lot of us end up? Right there, at the kitchen table, if we’ve got anything like a kitchen. When I think of the home I want [...]
...read moreThe Single Woman’s Apartment
Gawker has the list. Sadly, my apartment does not match up — I don’t have stacks of magazines or Nair or self-help books or stuffed animals or cat hair. In fact, the only things on the list that can be found in my apartment are scented candles and “anything pink” — but that’s only because [...]
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